You Can't Do That on Television: Difference between revisions
separate Missing Episodes from CJOH-TV as smoldering burning pit from Old Shame censored or banned episodes ("Adoption" and "Divorce") as maybe you can't do that on television
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* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: The [[Theme Tune]] is a sendup of "The William Tell Overture".
* [[Just the Introduction to The Opposites]]: The [[Trope Namer]]
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: A DVD release
** In general, the [[Missing Episode/Live-Action TV|series]] is plagued with [[Missing Episode]]s for various reasons – many of which stem from the show's historical status as a purely-local programme created at [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] member station CJOH-TV in Ottawa in 1979. Almost nothing remains of the first season, a local production which often aired live.
** Making matters worse, the CJOH studio [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/fire-destroys-ctv-ottawa-newsroom-1.937489 was gutted by fire] in the wee hours Sunday 7 Feb 2010; the station never returned to 1500 Merivale Road and the building was eventually demolished. In addition to local news archives, the master tapes of many of the episodes were destroyed.
* [[Lethal Chef]]: Barth, unabashedly. Yet for some reason the kids keep eating at his diner.
{{quote|"I'll have you know that is the exact same burger that we took the picture of, ''six months ago''."}}
* [[Literal Genie]]: See Jackass Genie above.
* [[Loads and Loads of Roles]]: Les Lye played all the adult male characters (including the disgusting and possibly drunken diner chef, Barth), sporting enough distinct looks that this fact wasn't immediately obvious.
** In America, the episode called "Adoption" was banned due to fears that adopted children would find some of the sketches offensive (despite a very clear warning at the beginning stating that the jokes weren't meant to hurt anyone). In Canada, this episode was allowed to air, but the part where Lance Prevert tries to give his adopted kid back to the agency, only to learn that "adoption is for life," had Lance's line "Damn bureaucrat!" muted out.▼
** In Canada, the episode called "Divorce" was banned, but some Canadian viewers who remember seeing the episode on YTV beg to differ.▼
▲*** Fortunately, there's always fan-tapes of those, save for the 1979 season.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Christine "Moose" McGlade. She was much older than the other kids and always seemed to be wearing aerobics leotards, working out and getting wet when she said "water".
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The show knows it's a show and the characters constantly interact with the "director". An episode about divorce had the show being interrupted because the director and his wife split up and she took half of the show.
* [[The Not-So-Harmless Punishment]]: One sketch had a child being 'grounded' and having his shoes taken away. The kid points out that having his shoes taken away won't stop him leaving the house. The adult then says that the child has misunderstood. Now that he has taken off his rubber-soled shoes, he is 'grounded' and hands the kid a live electric cable...
* [[Old Shame/Live Action TV|Old Shame]] – Two [[Missing Episode/Live-Action TV|episodes]] of the show were banned:
▲** In America, the episode called "Adoption" was banned due to fears that adopted children would find some of the sketches offensive (despite a very clear warning at the beginning stating that the jokes weren't meant to hurt anyone). In Canada, this episode was allowed to air, but the part where Lance Prevert tries to give his adopted kid back to the agency, only to learn that "adoption is for life," had Lance's line "Damn bureaucrat!" muted out.
▲** In Canada, the episode called "Divorce" was banned, but some Canadian viewers who remember seeing the episode on YTV beg to differ.
* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Kid]]: Moose, in a capacity similar to that of Kermit The Frog on the [[The Muppet Show]].
* [[Panty Shot]]: Christine in a host segment where she's in a tennis outfit and suffers a broken leg. Of course, the dress has a pretty short skirt to begin with.
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